My Mom
Kimya Dawson Lyrics

Have you ever had a dream
Have you ever experienced a horrifying nightmare?

That your favorite baby's drowning
Where your dear child is drowning in water?

And you grab him by his sweater sleeve and pull him up on to the ground and
You rescue them by lifting them up by their sweater from the water.

You can hear the water slosh around inside his tiny gut
But you still feel the water sloshing inside their small belly.

Push his belly up and down but he can't cough the water up
You try pushing their stomach but the water doesn't come out of their mouth.

Suddenly a flood comes out his mouth till there is nothing left inside of him
Finally, multiple floods of water burst out of their mouth, leaving them empty and lifeless.

He's empty now
There's no longer any breath or life left in them.

There isn't even one small breath
They don't have a single breath left in them.

And he goes limp in your arms
They become weak and motionless in your arms.

All the people's mouths are moving
Everyone is talking and making noise around you.

All you hear are car alarms
But all you can hear are the irritating sounds of car alarms.

And you wake up and start to cry
You wake up and can't help but cry at the thought of such a scary dream.

I will lose my shit if even one more person I know dies
I can't deal with the death of another person close to me.

So please don't die
I plead with those I care about to stay alive and healthy.

my mom's sick she's in a hospital bed
My mother is sick and in need of medical attention.

I've got a word for all you ghosts in her head
I have something to say to all the worries and fears that haunt my mother's mind.

And all you skeletons in her closet
And to all the secrets buried deep in her past.

Leave her alone
Please stop tormenting her mind.

Because my mom needs you gone
My mother needs to let go of her fears and secrets to heal and be strong again.

As long as she is haunted she'll never get strong
As long as her mind is occupied by negative thoughts, she won't recover.

you traded all your paper clips for a soap dish that way
You once exchanged all your paper clips for a soap dish to save your friend's rubber ducky from slipping away.

Your best friend's rubber ducky wouldn't slip and slide away
You did it to save your friend's rubber ducky.

But he traded his rubber duck for a cigar box to place your paper clips in
However, your friend gave away his rubber ducky to get you something better to store your paper clips.

Mr. Hooper came to say
Mr. Hooper arrived and said,

"oh my dear friends Bert and Ernie
"Oh, my dear friends Bert and Ernie,

Here's a little something for each of you from me
I have a small gift for both of you.

Here are your paper clips and here's your rubber ducky
Here is your paper clips back and the rubber ducky you lost earlier.

How could I ignore such selfless generosity?"
"How could I turn away such a selfless act?"

the human body's made up of good and bad bacteria
The human body has both good and bad bacteria.

But the antibiotics and the antibacterials are killing all the good ones
The medicine meant to destroy the bad bacteria is killing the good bacteria.

And the bad ones just get stronger and become super infections
The bad bacteria become stronger after defeating the good ones and become more harmful.

It's harder to destroy them and it's harder to detect them
It becomes difficult to identify and destroy them as they become stronger.

And there's something in her blood
My mother has something bad in her blood.

And there's something in her leg
There's something harmful in her leg.

And there's something in her brain
There's an issue in her brain that needs medical attention.

My mom needs you gone
For my mother to recover, she needs to let go of all her worries and fears.

My mom needs you gone
The worries and fears in her mind are holding her back.

My mom needs you gone
She needs to let go of everything that haunts her mind to be healthy and strong again.

My mom needs you gone
All the worries and secrets from her past need to be left behind for her to heal and recover.

My mom needs you gone
Recovering from sickness requires freedom from worries and negative thoughts.

My mom needs you gone
It can only happen if she lets go of everything that holds her back.